PERICLES is a four-year project that aims to address the challenges of ensuring that digital content remains accessible and understandable over time. Within this context we would like to bring to your attention the release of the PERICLES Extraction Tool.
This new checklist aims to help UK Higher Education Institutions aid their researchers in making informed choices about what research data to keep. It offers practical steps to apply the more general guidance in 'How to Appraise & Select Research Data for Curation', and 'How to Develop Research Data Management Services', and is available here (along with those guides). The checklist can be adapted to highlight options that your institution offers researchers about storing and sharing data they produce.
Purpose
This paper will focus on a highly significant yet under-recognised concern: the huge growth in the volume of digital archival information, and the implications of this shift for information professionals.
Design/methodology/approach
Though data loss and format obsolescence are often considered to be the major threats to digital records, the problem of scale remains underacknowledged. The paper will discuss this issue, and the challenges it brings using a case study of a set of Second World War service records.
Five "lightning" presentations on Day One of the Digital Preservation 2014 meeting included "Beyond the Russian Doll Effect: Reflexivity and the Digital Repository Paradigm" (James Bradley, Ball State University), "Video Game Source Disc Preservation" (David Gibson, Library of Congress), "UELMA-Compliant Preservation: Questions and Answers?" (Rebecca Katz, Council of the District of Columbia), "We Want You Just the Way You Are: The What, Why and When of Fixity in Digital Preservation" (Kate Murray, Library of Congress) and "Save Your Databases Using SIARD!" (Krystyna Ohnesorge, Swiss Federa
The 2014 National Digital Stewardship Agenda, released in July 2013, is still a must-read (have you read it yet?). It integrates the perspective of dozens of experts to provide funders and decision-makers with insight into emerging technological trends, gaps in digital stewardship capacity and key areas for development.
The Agenda suggests a number of important research areas for the digital stewardship community to consider, but the need for more coordinated applied research in cost modeling and sustainability is high on the list of areas prime for research and scholarship.
On Monday 8 September 2014 APARSEN and SCAPE together hosted a workshop, called ‘Digital Preservation Sustainability on the EU Policy Level’. The workshop was held in connection with the conference Digital Libraries 2014 in London.
‘As a community we have failed’
Equipment for Image Digitisation Projects
In any digitisation project it is necessary to consider the types of equipment that will be needed. There are a number of different ways to capture digital images such as cameras, flatbed scanners and book scanners, each of which performs a different function as well as having their own pros and cons.
Digitization guidelines have proliferated in many forms over the last fifteen years, and all of them reflect a set of best practices that continues to evolve. These guidelines attempt to complement this body of knowledge by addressing the specific needs related to planning digitization projects for rare and special collections. They are written from the point-of-view of special collection managers, rare book librarians, curators, and researchers who study the physical object as an artefact bearing intrinsic historical evidence as much as for the intellectual content that it contains.
WHY WERE CORPORATE WIDE RECORDS SYSTEMS IN THE PAPER AGE SO MUCH MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN THOSE IN THE DIGITAL AGE?
The Australian CSIRO has released an analysis of Australia’s galleries, libraries, archives and museums (or GLAM industry) has revealed that digital innovation in the sector is inconsistent and isolated. The report provides a roadmap for the industry in order for it to maximise the potential of the digital economy.
With Australia’s rapid uptake of online and mobile platforms, people are now choosing to access and share information in very different ways.